Shaykh Salih al-Ja'fari says: "The person of remembrance continues the dhikr of la ilaha illa Allah until his heart hears it and responds to it. Thus when the dhikr moves from his tongue to his heart; his limbs, organs and veins all make dhikr along with his heart. This continues until he hears everything in his presence saying: la ilaha illa Allah."
The resplendent moon of the age, Sayyidi Shaykh Abd al-Ghani said: إن تلاميذ الشيخ صالح هم كرامته الكبرى The [committed] students of Shaykh Salih are his greatest miracle. Fom the science of Tasawwuf and indeed the Prophetic Sunnah, we know that knowledge is of the greatest legacy for a person to pass on. It is well known that great Shaykhs have bequeathed…
With heavy hearts, we announce the passing of our teacher, Shaykh Dr. Ahmad Taha Rayyan. Shaykh Ahmad Taha Rayyan (b.1939) was the Shaykh of the Maliki scholars of Egypt and a member of the Council of Senior Scholars of the Azhar. He memorised the Qur‘an and the principles of the religious sciences in his village in Upper Egypt. Shaykh Ahmad graduated from the faculty of Shari‘ah…
Shaykh Muhammad Salih al-Ja’fari said: "All that you want or need, whatever it is, if you want Allah, Sublime and Exalted is He, to listen to you and your supplications, then it must go through the door of “Allahumma salli ‘ala Sayyidina Muhammad”. This is for all your wants and needs! This is our aqida and this is our belief." There was a man who…
Our master and shaykh of tariqa, Shaykh Saliḥ al-Ja’fari said: “Know that every shaykh of ṭariqa has remedies in his awrad for his murids, who are traversing his path; and in them are vitamins that strengthen and nourish [the murid]; and in them is a healing balm; and in them is that which guides the soul and strengthens the spirit. Whoever wants arrival, know, there is…
"The Beloved ﷺ would guide the people with religious lessons and the Magnificent Quran, and our shaykh Ahmad b. Idris followed him in that, and he guides the people by the Noble Quran and 'ilm and he persisted in that until he met his Lord. I have asked Allah to make me in conformity with what our shaykh was upon. So it is necessary for our…
On an occasion, Sidi Shaykh Abd al-Ghani brought his family to Cairo to visit his father, Shaykh Salih al-Ja’fari. Arriving at the Azhar; they came across the Shaykh al-Azhar, Shaykh Abd al-Haleem Mahmoud, who greeted them and asked what they were doing in Cairo; to which Sidi Abd al-Ghani replied “We came to visit the Kaaba of Ilm” – in reference to the noble Azhar itself. Shaykh…
Shaykh Dr. Fathi Hijazi, the head of the faculty of Arabic language at the Azhar university, shares a memory of his teacher, Shaykh Salih al-Ja'fari; speaking with a man who declared that the Qur'an is sufficient and there is no need for the Sunnah. English translation in CC
“The Jaʿfarī ṭarīqa is built upon knowledge and erected upon the acquisition of knowledge and is spread among the people by means of knowledge. Such that its shaykh, Imam al-Jaʿfarī, made attending lessons of knowledge from among its awrād, which the disciples of the ṭarīqa preserve in their gatherings… The Shaykh clarifies, in a clear picture, that the seeker in this ṭarīqa will not have its…
Beautiful supplication of Shaykh Salih al-Ja'fari about the Qur'an by the letters of the Arabic alphabet. Link has Arabic and English https://lightoftheazhar.com/files/dua_by_the_letters_in_Quran.pdf